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Qin Lei

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School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Asst Professor
Faculty, TEMPE Campus, Mailcode 5706
Biography: 

Qin Lei joined Arizona State University as an assistant professor in January 2016. Prior to ASU, she was a senior electric engineer, ULC Robotics, Hauppauge, NY, April 2015-December 2015; an electric engineer, General Electric Research Center, Niskayuna, NY, 2012-2015; and an intern, United Technology Research Center, East Hartford, CT, March 2012-Oct.2012.

Her research interests include: motor drive for electrical vehicle, medium voltage inverter for PV, fast charging stations and high speed motor drive; control and stability in high penetrated microgrid; on board charger for electrical vehicle; DC-DC converter for data center application; and high frequency high voltage application based on SiC and GaN Devices. The website for Lei's lab is located at powerlab.engineering.asu.edu.

Lei is looking for Ph.D students for Fall 2020! Welcome to apply!

Education: 
  • Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing 2012
  • B.E. Electrical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China 2006
Research Interests: 

Motor Drive for Electrical Vehicle

Medium Voltage Inverter for PV, Fast Charging Stations and High speed Motor Drive

Control and Stability in high penetrated Microgrid

On Board Charger for Electrical Vehicle

DC-DC converter for Data Center Application

High frequency high voltage application based on SiC and GaN Device

(All research in the lab are using SiC and GaN devices)

Research Group: 

Please see the lab website: powerlab.engineering.asu.edu

Publications: 

Selected Publications

  • Wang, Kuan, Qin Lei, and Chunhui Liu. "Methodology of reliability and power density analysis of SST topologies." Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2017 IEEE. IEEE, 2017.
  • Q. Lei, Y. Si and Y. Liu, "Energy storage system control strategy to minimize the voltage and frequency fluctuation in the microgird," 2018 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), San Antonio, TX, 2018, pp. 1500-1505.
  • Q. Lei, Y. Liu and Y. Si, "Extreme high power density T-modular-multilevel-converter for medium voltage motor drive," IECON 2017 - 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Beijing, 2017, pp. 1133-1139.
  • Yunpeng Si, Yifu Liu, Qin Lei, "New Module with Isolated Half Bridge or Isolated Full Bridge for Modular Medium voltage converter", International Power Electronics Conference (IPEC) 2018, accepted.
  • Yunpeng Si, Qin Lei, "Control Strategy and Simulation of a Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) based Pump-Back System for Variable Speed Drive Application" IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) 2018, accepted.
  • Qin Lei, Chunhui Liu, Yunpeng Si, Yifu Liu.”A Standard Block of "Series Connected SiC MOSFET" for Medium/High voltage converter”, INTERNATIONAL POWER ELECTRONICS CONFERENCE 2018
  • Chunhui Liu, Qin Lei, "Design Considerations and Performance Test for SiC MOSFET Based 1000V/ 1.5MHz Pulse Power Inverter " IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition 2018
  • Chunhui Liu, Qin Lei, "Current Source Gate Driver for Series Connected Silicon-Carbide (SiC) MOSFETs" 2019 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Anaheim, CA, 2019
  • Chunhui Liu, Qin Lei, "Smart Current Source Gate Driver for Fast Switching and Cross-Talk Suppression of SiC MOSFET" 2019 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Anaheim, CA, 2019
  • Qin Lei, Junjun Xin, John Jayne, “Power supply for electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) sensors”, U.S. Patent Application, June, 2017.
  • Qin Lei, Jie Shen, Stefan Schroeder, Disclosure, docket 275537-1, “GENERALIZED NEUTRAL POINT BALANCE METHOD FOR N-LEVEL MULTILEVEL CONVERTER,” U.S. Patent Application 14/317,361, filed June 27,2014
  • Lei, Q., F. Peng, et al. (2010). "Multi-loop Control Method for High-Performance Microgrid Inverter Through Load Voltage and Current Decoupling With Only Output Voltage Feedback." Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on PP(99): 1-1.  
  • Qin Lei; Fang Zheng Peng, "Space Vector Pulsewidth Amplitude Modulation for a Buck–Boost Voltage/Current Source Inverter," Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on, vol.29, no.1, pp.266,274, Jan. 2014  
  • Lei, Q.; Cao, D.; Peng, F.Z., “Novel loss and harmonic minimized vector modulation for currentfed quasi-z-source inverter in HEV motor drive application,” Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on ,vol.PP, no.99, pp.1,1, 0
Fall 2020
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 472Power Electronics & Power Mgmt
EEE 492Honors Directed Study
EEE 493Honors Thesis
EEE 499Individualized Instruction
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 591Seminar
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Summer 2020
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Spring 2020
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 492Honors Directed Study
EEE 493Honors Thesis
EEE 499Individualized Instruction
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Fall 2019
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 360Energy Sys/Power Electronics
EEE 492Honors Directed Study
EEE 493Honors Thesis
EEE 499Individualized Instruction
EEE 571Power System Transients
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Summer 2019
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Spring 2019
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 492Honors Directed Study
EEE 493Honors Thesis
EEE 499Individualized Instruction
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Fall 2018
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 360Energy Sys/Power Electronics
EEE 492Honors Directed Study
EEE 493Honors Thesis
EEE 499Individualized Instruction
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Summer 2018
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Spring 2018
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 360Energy Sys/Power Electronics
EEE 492Honors Directed Study
EEE 493Honors Thesis
EEE 499Individualized Instruction
EEE 571Power System Transients
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Fall 2017
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 360Energy Sys/Power Electronics
EEE 492Honors Directed Study
EEE 493Honors Thesis
EEE 499Individualized Instruction
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Summer 2017
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Spring 2017
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 360Energy Sys/Power Electronics
EEE 492Honors Directed Study
EEE 493Honors Thesis
EEE 499Individualized Instruction
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Fall 2016
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 492Honors Directed Study
EEE 493Honors Thesis
EEE 499Individualized Instruction
EEE 571Power System Transients
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Summer 2016
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 499Individualized Instruction
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Spring 2016
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 680Practicum
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Honors / Awards: 

Research Support from 2016 to present

  • EMAT Sensor Power Pulser Development, ULC Robotics, 2016-2017
  • Microgrid Stability, Salt River Project (SRP), 2017-2018
  • Bi-National Laboratory on Smart Sustainable Energy Management and Technology Training, Tecnologico de Monterrey, 2016-2019
  • Energy Storage in Microgrid Stability, Hitachi, 2018
  • Gate driver for monolithic GaN module, Infineon Technologies, 2018-2020
  • 48V mild-hybrid IPM drive, Darker Motor, 2018
Industry Positions: 

Electrical Engineer, GE Global Research, 2012-2015

ULC Robotics, 2015-2016